virtual in comment and analysis
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment Being able to use a wider version of the virtual keyboard - by turning the phone on its side - would also improve the texting experience, yet this is not currently possible. There's plenty that's great about the new iPhone, says Natasha Lomas. [14 Jul 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: A game of two halves
Comment A key part of virtualisation is in managing the provision of applications to virtual servers. Patching hundreds or thousands of images becomes a major problem, and managing a virtual environment can become an unexpected nightmare. [30 Jun 2008]
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment They are in effect acting as airborne mobile virtual network operators and typically have a revenue-sharing agreement with the airline. What's the tech behind that change and just how welcome is it, asks Anthony Plewes. [26 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com... Vista gets down to business, caught on camera, ID cards…
Comment Under XP the same PC could run three 512KB Virtual PC's with memory left over. Windows Vista's on the agenda again and this time silicon.com readers are debating whether the latest OS is really business-friendly. [12 Jun 2008]
Editor's Blog: Coming soon - our list of the UK's top CIOs
Comment Recently I've had conversations with CIOs ranging from the difficulties of travelling abroad with bodyguards to exploiting the potential of virtual worlds and getting succession planning right. Here at silicon.com we spend a lot of time talking to... [30 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Just how distributed is your business?
Comment In other cases it is home working that enables staff to work in the first place - for example, agents of virtual call centres permanently based at home. Demand on corporate networks for distributed services these days goes well beyond the usual IT... [24 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.04.08
Round-Up Virtual world inhabitants meeting government policy makers. Philip Rosedale, chief executive of Linden Lab, the company that runs Second Life, said: "It is likely that virtual world activities are somewhat more 'policeable' and the law somewhat... [04 Apr 2008]
ID tech tightens up compliance
Comment But even the most virtual of organisations has physical assets of some sort - and many of these assets are used to store or produce data, such as storage systems and printers. That's a step in the right direction, says Fran Howarth - but they still... [18 Mar 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Sunday
Comment There is also a company touting a Wii-inspired virtual reality technology and another offering a noise suppressing tech that means you can talk on the phone without having to shout to make yourself heard. [10 Feb 2008]
Itanium revisited - one year on
Comment The Itanium version allows up to four two-socket blades to be ganged up with special cables to create a 16-core SMP box and also include Hitachi's own virtual machine hypervisor, called Virtage, which controls the blades as a pool and allows for... [13 Dec 2007]
Dear silicon.com... Vista uptake… HMRC blunder… iPhone too cool or too costly?
Comment I have been locked out from my machine as an 'illegal copy' three times so far, each resolving itself after a couple of reboots - I now run a virtual XP on it for compatibility reasons. What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards... [29 Nov 2007]
Web 2.0 threat looms
Comment It sits in the host operating system and like a virtual machine can run its applications independently. The web is already the main target for security attacks. Now the functionality of dynamic web 2.0 applications is providing new ways to... [26 Nov 2007]
Rob Pardo
AS Profile In March analyst Screen Digest said the virtual world market, of which WoW is one of the leaders, is now worth $1bn a year. The judges praised Pardo's creation as being the proving ground for the next generation of businessmen and women, for whom... [12 Oct 2007]
Social networking goes mainstream
AS Analysis Virtual worlds were also discussed. The gaming community is where the "big developments in virtual worlds are happening", according to Agenda Setters panellist and analyst at Freeform Dynamics, Jon Collins. [12 Oct 2007]
Diane Greene
AS Profile But Greene is not resting on her virtual laurels and continues to come up with new ideas - including how to keep an IT service available even when the server it is running on fails. VMware CEO and co-founder Diane Greene has made this year's list... [12 Oct 2007]
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